Michael Muthreich: Some remarks on the Arabic "Epistola ad s. Timotheum de passione apostolorum Petri et Pauli" (CPG 6631)

The "Epistola ad s. Timotheum de passione apostolorum Petri et Pauli" ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite is to be found in more than 45 Arabic manuscripts. The oldest of them dates back to the 12th century. Despite the closeness of the Arabic translation to the Syriac one and the variants inside the Arabic text tradition itself some common peculiarities of the Arabic version hint at the fact that the translator may have had a Greek or even a Coptic Vorlage. A closer look at the Arabic tradition is therefore recommendable with regard to reconstructing the original text of which a Greek or Coptic version is not known yet.